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Rebuild 3...sorta. I got the bad ending (well, one of the bad endings it is a zombie game). Vast improvement over the last game with an actual story of sorts. Get's a bit samey near the end but there's enough story to pull you through and mix it up a bit. If you're looking for a non-IAP city building game on your phone or tablet I'd recommend it.

AC: Unity T'was alright, though shit tons of filler stuff.

Wow Revan, that's errm. Hmm For Ethan I'm slightly surprised since I would guess Lib Dems are pretty far left for you guys. Though if guessing on a few topics might lean to that. I guess stuff like bringing back grammar schools might have thrown you (it threw others). Also how do the Americans that've taken this have a habit of coming up with Sinn Fein? They're an Irish party. One with not unsubstantial links with the IRA. On rights of women and minorities they've largely the same rights as everyone else. I guess a big thing in US for womens rights is abortion whereas over here at school we're like "go to GP, they'll give you morning after pill no questions asked, gone a bit later than that then go to the GP and they'll sort stuff out. 96th trimester abortions are illegal". On a minority front remember for UK, and a large part of Europe (in fact more so in much of Europe) our minorities are sorta more minority. I think in US blacks alone are 13% of pop, whereas I think all minorities combined are 13% over here (edit: yeah, just under). I guess to a degree it's also largely seen as an immigration thing, "what do we do about the ones coming in" than a "what do we do about the folks that are here". I guess overall it's not a huge political point, most of the equality laws in place cover most things regardless of race, gender and creed. (not that we're some equality utopia, still plenty of racism and dicks around)

http://uk.isidewith.com/results/1360833243 With results like this you can see why there's a fair bit of vote spoiling in the UK.

http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1360799732 Unsurprisingly I'm a damn dirty socialist.

Some sweet renders of the CG pieces in Force Awakakens: http://imgur.com/a/lWptA Mmm that Star Destroyer. Oh yeah they're like crystal clear res too, really clean renders.

It's not Disney that's being advertised it's Facebook, using Disneys content. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement (though given it means Disney lose out on exposure for content limiting to one services instead of Youtube as well it's more beneficial to FB at the moment). Also this isn't "ads" in so far as Facebook works, it's "content". As far as how Facebook works there's no difference between the video posted on Star Wars page than a video posted on my mums page. Disney do not need to pay Facebook to host this on their, and since they're the debut content it is highly highly highly likely that (given the Instagram thing as well) Facebook have approached Disney to produce exclusive content to promote new FB & Instagram features. It's highly highly unlikely that Disney went to Facebook and said "We are making a film in a super popular franchise and need to advertise it to get the word out, and we want to pay you money to host our trailers, despite it being free, and hey we'll maybe even put in the extra effort of cropping down a trailer to 15 seconds and keeping it landscape despite your app not supporting that until we posted our video, and we'll also spend time making a 3D set and a VR fly through at our R&D department despite your service not supporting VR video playback until the day our trailer is up". I mean maybe Disney was "yo we want to put a trailer on Instagram but cba to crop it can you code your app to do widescreen, chop chop". "Yo guys sorry to be a pain but we really want to do a mini VR trailer and stick it on your site, Youtube does VR already, you don't. Can you recode your video player to support that pls" Though a bit less likely. As mentioned, it being Star Wars there's likely no need to even use Facebooks Ad Manager since it is popular content, would get spread around rather naturally. It has 72K Shares already. I have however seen adverts for their Star Wars Uprising, but that's a different product and company, and app adverts are a Facebook speciality. You've probably seen a fair bunch of them already. http://marketingland.com/youtube-vs-facebook-video-two-titans-face-off-123419 Facebook wants you to stay on Facebook, if it has content right there for you to digest, such as an exclusive Star Wars trailer, you're more likely to stay on the site, and from there digest adverts (actual adverts, not content like a trailer) rather than click a link and vanish to Youtube to watch a trailer and their adverts. I imagine no one has failed to note that for months you now get curated news articles on the sidebar. Hey look, more content. As article notes they've already made deals with other content creators too. As saying goes: "Content is King, Distribution is Queen and she wears the crown".

I'm not sure they need advice from Facebook on how to make fancy videos. Just a thought I'm honestly not sure why you're still so focused on this being through their ad platform too. Facebook if anything are the ones promoting. Given Youtube, a competitor to Facebooks fledgling video service, has had VR video for a while (and Google even have VR cameras and such too) Facebook will be wanting to show their feature off (and their entire Oculus wing). Facebooks advertising platform division are likely nowhere near this, they'll be dealing with small fry business owners wanting to get 100K impressions for £20. This'll be much higher than that, especially working with a big client like Disney and a content house like ILM. What's more news worthy for a relatively minor feature on FB; some short video of say...the Facebook offices or something like that, or getting content right from the Star Wars studio? That's how content marketing works: have content people want to put on your site and share and spread, then you don't need to pay for advertising. It's Star Wars. Your friend would be spot on assuming it was a smaller business, i.e your work or something, but when it comes to it being a property like Star Wars and the oh so oddly coincidental timing of not just one but two new pieces of Star Wars content popping up on not just one but two of Facebooks properties on not just one but two feature updates it looks highly unlikely it's anything to do with their ad platform (especially when not two, but just one of the two services has an ad platform). Lest ye forget I do digital marketing for businesses too. edit: not that any of this matters really cos end of day whether it's on Vimeo, Youtube or Funnyjunk it's still all

Well this confirms that the guide shown in the SPECIAL videos is your perk chooser. There's 275 all together (70 individual perks X multiple levels for each). So there's why you can level forever.

Story trailer. Vaguely interested, probably a "after xmas" game though given...Fallout 4

Given CowboyPoet pointed out that the Star Wars trailer thing coincided with a Instagram update to add landscape video, and this coincided with Facebook supporting 360 video (which even got a bit of news coverage too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34344431)I'd go with the theory it's Facebook approaching Disney for working on content to push their new services rather than Disney feeling it's a more favourable service for hosting videos. We'll likely still see their main trailers posted on Youtube, cos that's where they do best. And yes normally if you're a bog standard company you'd be at Facebooks whim, but when you're the largest media franchise, and have ILM as your content production division to provide shiny VR video then they're going to work with you to help push that and their service. There's not really any shiny tech Superbowl would be looking to push. It's closer to say...Amazon financing Top Gear crew to push their video service. Also as with last time I'll point out it's not entirely favourable given it doesn't properly work:

In another episode of "Facebook likely paying to promote Star Wars on their new platforms", this time actually having it on Facebook to promote the new VR player* (similar to last time: Youtube does VR and has for a fair while so yeah leaning much more to FB paying Disney for this). Speeding along Jakku alongside the Star Destroyer from the trailers. https://www.facebook.com/StarWars/videos/1030579940326940/?fref=nf *Though weird they're doing it through Facebook and not something for Oculus Rift. But same with the "weird they're doing this through Instagram and not Facebook" thoughts last time.

So there's no proper name yet but enough is cropping up that it's definetly in the works. I'l lchange name once it's known. Here's something to start us off: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1113452 Patent surface for clickable scroll shoulder pad buttons. Makes a degree of sense once you hear of it. Especially given the use of R1/RB & L1/LB for use with navigating tabbed menus already.My only thought would be that it's horizontal scroll for what'd likely frequently be vertically scrolling menus (though obviously they'll be games utilizing too, or at least intended to)

Some Dogmeat: (you'd think with this much access to a real dog they'd have figured how to texture and animate one right?

Scottish man takes down hate preacher. I'd say "peacefully" but pretty sure bagpipes are psychological weapons.

Picked this up for pre-order alongside a UU keyring. Should be nice to fill a large white void on my wall.

http://imgur.com/a/h3Yrw Teeth of presidential candidates.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/21/piggate-hameron-twitter-react-david-cameron-pig-head-claims Reactions are great. Also it's now apparently "Hameron". We're undecided on a hashtag it seems. (also minor correction, the chinese thing is a couple years old, just resurfacing due to current events). I imagine as this dies down we'll see more stuff on other events like tax affairs, drug use, etc n other potential scandals. Also there's stuff that'll unfortunately be buried now but DWP lost a case on someone committing suicide after being declared "fit for work". http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/depressed-man-killed-himself-as-a-direct-result-of-dwps-fit-to-work-ruling-coroner-finds-10510305.html

Oh lordy. I check twitter as I go to bed and "piggate" is starting to explode. Word is that back in his Bullingdon Club days our current PM put his willy in a dead pig. And someone took photos. This has coincided with gov't making a deal on exporting pig semen to China which makes it even more hilarious. Those photos come to light he's done for. Not singing the national anthem is one thing, defiling a pig is another. Especially if it's tied to Bullingdon Club that's class included. In other news an army general or whatever (I'm not good at paying to ranks, but I assume kind of high up) essentially committed himself to premeditated treason should Corbyn become PM. Which I'm pretty sure threatening a coup against a future government, potential or not, is one that gets you locked up in the army.

http://i.imgur.com/BVXJnLV.gifv

Chocobo's skidding in wet conditions is kinda cool. The animals in this game are pretty neat with the herds and such. Also I've not paid too much attention, but is this game all in the same place? Just pretty sure a fair chunk of that early Chocobo stuff you can see the same barrier you have in the demo. Also overly dramatic fishing there.

It's a bit big headed of The Doctor to assume his walking away would be the be all and end all of Davros as a kiddie, that no one but the Doctor could save him. And that in all of time and space there would only be one person named "Davros". But narratively that's the case. Anyway probably going to find that given the teaser trailer on the end he goes back and saves Davros with the intent of raising him up and making sure he's nice, well adjusted and dies with all his own hands and just two eyes. (and in front of the Doctor, maybe with two hands around his neck then crushed, atomised and kept in a box of goo) Snake guy was cool. Nice bit of cameos too at the start, all those welsh quarries.

Oooh this was a compelling start to a series. Even with the obvious wish-washy away of Missy's return. I await eagerly for next weeks instalment. Given Doctor isn't Batman and will kill if it suits his needs it's all up in the air.